Tattooing of skin results in transportation and light-induced decomposition of tattoo pigments - a first quantification in vivo using a mouse model

Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 54-60

  Engel, Eva ^a   Vasold, Rudolf ^a   Santarelli, Francesco ^a   Maisch, Tim ^a   Gopee, Neera V ^b   Howard, Paul C ^b   Landthaler, Michael ^a   Bäumler, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR TOXICOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal model; Lymph node; Quantification; Tattoo pigments; Transportation

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC AMINE; PIGMENT; PIGMENT RED 22; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPOSITION; FEMALE; HAIRLESS MOUSE; IN VIVO STUDY; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTODEGRADATION; PIGMENTATION; SOLAR RADIATION; TATTOOING;

ANIMALS; AZO COMPOUNDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASERS; MICE; MICE, HAIRLESS; PHOTOLYSIS; SKIN; TATTOOING;

EID: 72549087541     PISSN: 09066705     EISSN: 16000625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0625.2009.00925.x     Document Type: Article

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